Li Chengqian of the Tang Dynasty: Please say long live His Majesty

Chapter 548: Threats can easily turn into resentment (Part )
The night rain is hazy and chilling.

Yang Shidao returned to the princess's mansion feeling somewhat numb.

Entering the study and just sitting down, the housekeeper heard the news and rushed over: "Prince consort!"

"Have you found Shierlang?" Yang Shidao raised his head slightly, his eyes tired.

"No!" The butler said solemnly, bowing his hands. "There's no news about Twelve Lang from any source. It's possible that Twelve Lang has fallen into someone's hands and been imprisoned. Not many people in Chang'an City dare to do that these days."

"Not much." Yang Shidao snorted and said, "Not a small amount!"

"Prince Consort!" The housekeeper looked at Master Yang carefully and asked, "Did Prince Consort receive any news?"

Yang Shidao waved his hand and said, "There's no news. It's just that someone is eyeing my position as the Minister of Personnel. You'd better hope that Shi Erlang can control his mouth, otherwise I will lose my position as the Minister of Personnel, and he will also lose his life."

"The prince consort?" The housekeeper was shocked.

"What do your family say?" Yang Shidao looked serious.

"Someone in the family may be going to Beijing, but we don't know who it is. We are just coordinating it now." The housekeeper bowed seriously.

There are only a few real leaders in the Hongnong Yang family, and each of them holds an official position, so it is not easy for them to leave their post without permission.

Especially since we have to go to Beijing.

If you are caught accidentally, you will be immediately charged with conspiracy, so you need to coordinate a suitable reason to enter Beijing.

"It's good that someone is here. This way I can take off this burden." Yang Shidao breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, a voice came from the door: "You should have unloaded this burden a long time ago."

The butler immediately took a step back, turned around, bowed to the door and said, "Princess."

Princess Changguang, dressed in a dark green skirt, walked in from the study door, glanced at the housekeeper, and said lightly, "You can go down."

"Yes!" The butler bowed and looked at Yang Shidao carefully. Seeing that Yang Shidao had no reaction, he could only bow and leave.

……

"This old dog is getting more and more presumptuous." Princess Changguang stood at the window, watching the housekeeper walk away, then looked at Master Yang and said, "Shi Erlang, don't think no one will notice what you want to do while you stay in Chang'an City. Prince Consort, now that we have our own grandson, we don't need to worry about the affairs of the Yang family anymore."

Yang Shidao sighed and said, "Princess, have you learned everything that happened in the court today?"

"Hmm!" Princess Changguang walked to the side of Yang Shidao and sat down, looking up at him: "Shi Erlang has been acting recklessly, and I'm afraid he has been targeted for a long time, and finally reported to Your Majesty, and then the incident at the Imperial Examination Hall happened. It seems that Your Majesty is concerned about his reputation, so he covered up the matter.

However, the Yang family's manipulation of the imperial examinations and their control over future officials have already touched His Majesty's reverse scale. Now His Majesty is just waiting to see if anyone else from the Yang family will step forward."

Yang Shidao was stunned for a moment and hesitated to speak several times.

After a moment, he sighed and said, "I, your husband, don't even see these things as clearly as the princess does."

"The prince consort is just confused by the situation." Princess Changguang shook her head slightly.

"The situation is now extremely dangerous." Yang Shidao nodded and said, "Although Your Majesty will not pursue the imperial examination, if Twelve Lang shows up, he will be killed. In addition, although Your Majesty spared me in court, he has explicitly and implicitly stated that I will no longer be in charge of the Ministry of Personnel. Isn't this telling everyone that the Minister of Personnel is going to be replaced?"

Minister of Personnel, Heavenly Official.

The first person under the prime minister.

Even some deputy prime ministers in the court were not as powerful as Yang Shidao, the Minister of Personnel.

Therefore, when the emperor showed that he was unwilling to see Yang Shidao remain in the position of Minister of Personnel, everyone would take action.

Wei, Pei, Xue, Liu, Du, Dou family, many old ministers in the court, and provincial governors would all be tempted.

The emperor did not give a reason, but those people would frantically look for problems with Yang Shidao.

Do everything possible to pull him down from the position of Minister of Personnel.

Princess Changguang held Yang Shidao's hand and whispered, "Although your Highness has rarely intervened in Yang's affairs over the years, you are still responsible for her sins. In this case, you can resign from your position as Minister of Personnel. You can retire peacefully and serve as my Highness's consort. For my sake, His Majesty will not pursue this matter too closely."

"It's not that easy to step down." Yang Shidao couldn't help but sigh.

He is now the Minister of Personnel, the highest-ranking official of the Hongnong Yang family in the court. With him in the court, the Hongnong Yang family will be much smoother in all aspects of the world.

Not to mention the whole world, just the whole Chang'an, although Yang Shidao seldom participated in the details of the Hongnong Yang family's operations, however, even the small part he participated in was the most important core part of all the operations of the Hongnong Yang family in Chang'an.

Wei, Pei, Xue, Liu, Yang, Du, Cui, Lu, Zheng, Wang.

All the communications between the major aristocratic families and their most prominent figures were handled by Yang Shidao.

If he were to step down from the position of Minister of Personnel, the interests of the Hongnong Yang family in Chang'an and even in the world would suffer huge losses.

Princess Changguang didn't know what Yang Shidao was thinking. She looked at him and said, "Actually, there are some things that your Highness hasn't seen clearly. This time, His Majesty asked your Highness to rest at home twice. In fact, he is telling your Highness that he should resign on his own initiative." "Huh?" Yang Shidao looked up in surprise.

Princess Changguang smiled and said, "This is actually the method used by the late emperor. He often did this when he was alive. As long as an old minister takes the initiative to resign, Your Majesty will naturally take care of him and treat him with dignity, and will not pursue the matter further.

As for the Yang family matters that Prince Consort is worried about, let me be frank, Prince Consort, the Hongnong Yang family has been around for hundreds of years from the Han Dynasty to the present day. It is impossible for a small storm to blow it down."

Yang Shidao was stunned, and then he couldn't help laughing "hahaha".

This is the truth.

It was not before that Yang Shidao had been driven down from the position of Minister of Personnel. Although the entire Hongnong Yang family had suffered some setbacks, they were only some setbacks.

As for the reason why there is such great pressure now, it is, after all, because there is a part of the family that has gained huge benefits because of him. Now that he wants to step down, the interests of these people will naturally be damaged. The pressure he is under actually comes from these people.

As long as he doesn't care about these people's attitudes, everything will naturally be easy.

Yang Shidao looked at Princess Changguang and said gently, "Fortunately, the princess is here."

"Hmm!" Princess Changguang smiled, then stood up and said, "I'm going to see the child now. Prince Consort, please write the memorial."

"Okay!" Yang Shidao watched Princess Changguang walk out of the study, then took out a piece of paper from the side.

But he didn't start writing for a long time.

Yang Shidao raised his head slightly.

Before he submitted his petition to retire, some hidden dangers at home needed to be properly dealt with.

……

March 9th, night.

"Ah, ah, ah..." Waves of screams of pain came from Wanchun Palace.

Li Chengqian stood outside the hall with a serious expression.

Su Xu stood aside and whispered, "Your Majesty, don't worry. The Queen and the Princess are already inside. They will be fine."

Li Chengqian looked up at Su Xu, then smiled bitterly and said, "Although I already have six sons and one daughter, I still can't help but feel nervous when encountering something like this."

"When it comes to matters in the palace, childbirth isn't the most dangerous. The real danger comes when a child is around two years old." After a brief pause, Su Xu looked at Li Chengqian and said, "Two-year-old children are the most active. If they accidentally get sick, it's very easy for something to go wrong."

Li Chengqian nodded slowly. The age of two is when a child's immune system is formally formed.

The so-called immunity is actually the process of the body withstanding external virus attacks.

If you can't hold on, something bad will easily happen.

"I'll remember that." Li Chengqian nodded seriously at Su Xu. This matter required an experienced person to lead the way, and most of the concubines who got into trouble in the palace had no one at home who could take care of them in time.

"Your Majesty," Su Xu said, changing the subject, "Regarding the Duke of Ande, hasn't he submitted his retirement petition yet?"

The authorities are fascinated.

In fact, many people can see that Li Chengqian takes care of Yang Shidao.

The reason why Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others did not say anything about this matter was because they saw that Li Chengqian had left Yang Shidao with the last bit of decent time.

"Not yet." Li Chengqian shook his head calmly and said, "But I'm not worried. Father once said that Duke Ande is a pure man, so he will figure it out."

"That's good." Su Xu breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he and Yang Shidao had been colleagues for more than 20 years, and he didn't want to see anything really happen to him.

"Don't worry about the Duke of Ande. What I'm worried about is the Hongnong Yang family. Some people won't let go of this matter so easily." Li Chengqian's expression became serious.

Not everyone can see the sunk cost clearly, and not everyone can choose to cut off the loss.

"If someone can't even see this clearly, then he's not fit to stay in the court." Su Xu shook his head and said, "I'm actually more worried about the officials implicated by the Hongnong Yang family."

"Don't worry about them." Li Chengqian looked up and said, "I will demote them according to their performance. If their performance is good, they will be demoted one level at most. Only those with extremely poor performance will be directly dismissed or even imprisoned."

"Your Majesty is merciful." Su Xu bowed with a look of joy.

Li Chengqian shook his head and said, "With this demotion, the possibility of them being held hostage by the Hongnong Yang Clan will no longer exist. On the contrary, they will be grateful to me and resentful of the Hongnong Yang Clan. In a few years, I will send these people to Shanzhou and ask them to help me watch over the Hongnong Yang Clan."

Su Xu was stunned, staring at Li Chengqian's indifferent profile in a daze.

At this moment, a baby's cry was heard in Wanchun Palace.

Li Chengqian smiled lightly.

(End of this chapter)